Danny Rolling, popularly referred to as the Gainesville Ripper , was a career criminal who was convicted for a string of burglaries, robberies and automobile thefts mere days after he tore through the fabric of the University of Florida campus community, killing five students in bizarre and macabre ways in August of 1990. A steady stream of local residents and reporters came to the Alachua County Courthouse Thursday to see graphic crime scene pictures of the Gainesville student murder victims. The mother of one of the victims of the 1990 Gainesville student murders and the judge who sentenced convicted killer Danny Rolling to death talked about privacy and access to investigative. Her daughter, Sonja, was murdered in 1990 by a serial killer known as the Gainesville Ripper . Danny Harold Rollings mutilated and killed five Florida college students that summer, leaving. Rolling earned the tile of “Gainesville Ripper ,” as he bound most the bodies, raped three of the girls, sexually posed some of them and cut off one of the girls’ heads and mounted it on a shelf. Explore the chilling story of Danny Harold Rolling, the Gainesville Ripper who murdered five University of Florida students in just four days. Discover how these brutal killings paralyzed a college town with fear. Stored in an otherwise unremarkable office on the first floor of the Alachua County Courthouse are some of the bloodiest, most disturbing photographs you could ever imagine. Trigger Warning: Sexual assault, sexual abuse, violence, crime scene descriptions Show Notes Over a course of a few days Danny brutally murdered 5 young people in their homes. In this first part of a two part episode, we look at the crimes and the victims that he so viciously murdered. In the summer of 1990, just days before classes were to begin at the University of Florida in Gainesville , a monster crept through the night and viciously murdered five college students. He was finally caught and the weeks of terror ended. Danny Rolling, Daniel Rolling, Gainesville Ripper killed four women and two men in one weekend of horror in the University town of Gainesville.
Gainesville Ripper Crime Scene Photos: A Family's Heartbreaking Story
Danny Rolling, popularly referred to as the Gainesville Ripper , was a career criminal who was convicted for a string of burglaries, robberies and automobile th...